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Can you win the Booker Prize without being able to write?
I mentioned a couple of days ago being underwhelmed by Orbital, Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize-winning novel. But I am a…
Starmer attacks ‘open border’ Tories
Anyone else want to do a Westminster press conference? Keir Starmer made it a hat-trick this afternoon when he gave…
Trump has put Trudeau in a very difficult position
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed this week that he’s going to fulfil his campaign pledges on tariffs. There will be a…
Reform hits 100,000 members
There was a business-like manner in Nigel Farage’s response to the news that net migration was more than 900,000 in…
Labour should be cautious about celebrating the fall in net migration
How can you miss over 300,000 migrants? This morning the Office for National Statistics revised up its previous record high…
Is France heading for a Greek-style crisis?
For the first time ever, France’s borrowing costs have risen above those of Greece. As of today, the bond markets…
David Cameron u-turns on assisted dying
David Cameron has today become the first former prime minister to come out in support of assisted dying, having previously…
Britain has a blasphemy law in all but name
Anyone outraged by Labour MP Tahir Ali calling on the government to introduce blasphemy laws has clearly not been paying…
The Taoiseach will get more than he bargained for in Ireland’s snap election
The Irish general election happens on Friday. In times past, observers would be marking the rise of Sinn Fein; now…
The leak that’s haunting Netanyahu’s government
Early September, days after the gruesome discovery of six murdered Israeli hostages in a tunnel in Gaza, a dramatic scoop…
Harris campaign chiefs give pathetic excuses for blowing $1 billion to lose election
After the Harris/Walz campaign blew over $1 billion, its top managers joined their first interview post-election on Pod Save America…
Can Ukraine’s army survive its deserter crisis?
Not since the summer of the 2022 invasion have Russian troops been making more progress in Ukraine. Last month alone,…
Why is a Labour MP calling for a blasphemy law?
Today at Prime Minister’s Questions, the Labour MP Tariq Ali asked: ‘Will the Prime Minister commit to introducing measures to…
Badenoch admits Tory migration failures
Of all the issues which did it for the Conservatives in July 2024, no issue deterred life-long Tories more than…
Kemi Badenoch must get better at PMQs
Third time lucky for Kemi Badenoch. The Tory leader’s first two attempts to crush Keir Starmer at PMQs failed. Today…
WATCH: Kamala’s blundering, bizarre farewell message
Farewell, Kamala Harris. It’s been a brutal month for the outgoing vice president. Following her devastating loss on November 5,…
Flashback: Rachel Reeves’ battle for winter fuel allowance
It’s fuel poverty awareness day today. So what better time to reflect on Labour decision to pull payments for pensioners,…
William Hague is the new Chancellor of Oxford
Congratulations to William Hague, who has today triumphed in the race to succeed Chris Patten and become the 168th Chancellor…
Private Eye’s shameful attack on Allison Pearson
What is the purpose of Private Eye? I know it’s supposed to be some kind of anti-establishment satirical magazine, boldly holding power…
Kemi Badenoch calls on Keir Starmer to resign at PMQs
Unconventional as ever, Kemi Badenoch used her third ever Prime Minister’s Questions as Conservative leader to call on Keir Starmer…
The advert that radicalised me
This is one of a series of posters that adorn the walls of Westminster Underground station, through which many MPs and aides…
Michel Barnier has brought France to the verge of collapse
A new Anglo-Saxon barbarism has entered the French political language: ‘government shutdown.’ There is excited talk of civil servants not…
There’s a simple explanation for Calin Georgescu’s ‘shock’ triumph in Romania
On a bus journey in Transylvania last summer, I got talking to a young Romanian man who works in Yorkshire…
Shutting Smithfield shows a reckless disregard for London’s history
Virtually every aspect of London has changed beyond recognition in the past nine hundred years, but there has been one…
EV craze is killing our car industry
It is hard to see where all of Ed Miliband’s ‘green jobs’ are coming from, but we are certainly losing…
